(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

The October Crisis was not just a crisis of the financial sector, but one arising from an ill-informed and erroneous mindset that still infects businesses in general and requires correction.

I do tend to eat healthily most of the time, but I don't restrict myself. I believe in eating anything and everything in moderation and doing some exercise.

I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

Thank you, Wanda. My sister. I will never forget you. Be happy, Mel. Enjoy it all. Appreciate it for me.

But in my head I can hear Haymitch's smug, if slightly exasperated, words: "Yes, that's what I'm looking for, sweetheart.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.